He probably could just save money by not advertising here in the Northeast anymore, where even the smallest town has one or two pizzerias a million times better than his shops. Oh wait, that wouldn't combine the relief of a hissyfit with the joy of kicking poor people in the balls, now would it?

once again, i ask: if you're a retail business, why the f*ck would you risk alienating HALF of your customers by making political statements?

i don't like boycotts, but i will not eat a papa john's pizza now (not that i did before, but still...), i won't eat at applebees, and i won't eat at chick-fil-a. had they just kept their damned mouths shut, i would't care, normally. but they made me care. and a whole lot of other pissed-off people, i'm guessing.

FlashHarry:once again, i ask: if you're a retail business, why the f*ck would you risk alienating HALF of your customers by making political statements?

i don't like boycotts, but i will not eat a papa john's pizza now (not that i did before, but still...), i won't eat at applebees, and i won't eat at chick-fil-a. had they just kept their damned mouths shut, i would't care, normally. but they made me care. and a whole lot of other pissed-off people, i'm guessing.

Yep, this. I'm one of the libbier-libtardos here on Fark, but if I ever owned a retail or service-based business, you bet I'd keep my political feelings a secret. No reason to proclaim your love for either side and alienate half your customers. It's remarkably bad business.

Granted, sometimes business owners are put on the spot, like when the GM and Chrysler CEOs had to call out Romney for lying about their movement of manufacturing operations to China, but they didn't seek to voice their views---they were forced to defend themselves by Romney's mendacity.

Eh, they're not bad. I've had a lot worse. Though I suppose it really depends on your local restaurant; the pizza from my local Papa John's is OK, but the one by my uncle's place is a farking greasepit.

I had to do the pizza delivery route to pay my way through school Pizza Hut/Papa Johns/Dominos pending where I lived. PJ was notorious in our state for finding a reason to fire any manager after they received a certain amount of raises (i.e. just wait for a 6 week sales dip that happens at particular times during a year). Then, you'd wait to hear about how they were rehiring him/her at the closest store as a worker. Within 6 months, you'd hear about how he/she was the manager of that store but at the lowest level of pay. It was the cycle of employment there.

These companies can go ahead and shoot themselves in both feet and fall into a bear trap. Other companies will step in to take their place.

That's Obama's cunning strategy: patriotic conservative companies will protest his War on Capitalism and go out of business, while communist socialistic companies will thrive by serving the unfilled market. There has never been a bigger threat to free enterprise.

I pay my regular $10 for a large pizza pie from a local pizzeria that's been in the neighborhood for decades and I'm content with the taste.

What I don't understand is a few years back when there was this supposed milk shortage a lot of pizzerias in my area raised the prices of their pizza, so with that said why doesn't Papa Johns simply raise the price of their pizza to offset the supposed high costs of Obamacare?

Bontesla:We've stopped buying their pizza after Papa John held a fundraiser for Romney.

John is a billionaire. It's much better that he squeeze every penny of profit than to offer health care to his employeesm.

So you make millions being a pizza shop owner, you came up from being nothing but a pizza shop owner, but now that you're wealthy you plan to eff your employees in the ass rather than adapt to some new HR rules. You can't possibly pass the 14 cents on to the consumer, oh no. You'd rather pout and whine about Obama.

LegacyDL:I pay my regular $10 for a large pizza pie from a local pizzeria that's been in the neighborhood for decades and I'm content with the taste.

What I don't understand is a few years back when there was this supposed milk shortage a lot of pizzerias in my area raised the prices of their pizza, so with that said why doesn't Papa Johns simply raise the price of their pizza to offset the supposed high costs of Obamacare?

I once ordered a pizza from them and it never arrived. I called them to investigate, ended up speaking with whomever oversaw that location, and was challenged to a fight. Over the phone. The challenge, not the fighting. Silly.

No, I didn't go. Did offer him an opportunity to deliver. Failed that too.

LegacyDL:What I don't understand is a few years back when there was this supposed milk shortage a lot of pizzerias in my area raised the prices of their pizza, so with that said why doesn't Papa Johns simply raise the price of their pizza to offset the supposed high costs of Obamacare?

Ding ding ding we have a winner!

The cost of doing business is always going up for a myriad of reasons, and you typically pass it on while retaining the employees necessary to run your business. One wonders why he hasn't already cut hours if those hours are unnecessary to begin with. No, this guy has chosen Obamacare as his personal whining platform, and is punishing his minimum wage employees so he can make a political statement.

Truly, it is a rare man more douchebaggy than he. Seriously, fark this guy with a rake.

The closest delivery pizza place to our house is a Papa Johns, but the boyfriend and I won't eat there. Not because of this specifically, but because it's not very good. I'm from Chicago, he's from Manhattan - pizza is kind of our thing. There's a great little hole in the wall Italian place about 5 miles from where we live that makes a kick-ass pizza. It's more expensive than a Papa Johns pie, and further out of our way to get it, but I'd rather support a local business than give this douche any of our money.

What ticks me off is I stopped eating at all of these places years ago because of the terrible food. So now I cant;t even have the satisfaction of boycotting them!As someone in a previous thread said, I like my food handlers to be healthy!

Schnatter made headlines over the summer when he told shareholders that the cost of a Papa John's pizza will increase by between 11 and 14 cents due to Obamacare.

How the hell does anyone get away with being this kind of pennypinching Ebenezer Scrooge? What business sense does it even make to screw your workers for a price difference NO ONE WILL EVEN NOTICE? Farking hell, just raise the cost of every pizza 25 cents, give your employees healthcare, enjoy the good publicity AND get and extra 11 to 15 cents profit per pizza.

Or Wal-Mart could pay all of their store workers $12/hr and up and it would cost shoppers an extra 40 CENTS per visit. But, hurr, nope, they'd rather have their workers desperate and not give a shiat with turnaround time in the months than have their pick of every minimum wage worker anywhere else clamoring to work there.

Guess I'll have to start boycotting their shiatty pizza. Oh right, I haven't ordered Papa John's since I was a college student. There's a great pizza place in Vinton, VA I order pizza from./fark you and your mansion Papa John

LegacyDL:I pay my regular $10 for a large pizza pie from a local pizzeria that's been in the neighborhood for decades and I'm content with the taste.

What I don't understand is a few years back when there was this supposed milk shortage a lot of pizzerias in my area raised the prices of their pizza, so with that said why doesn't Papa Johns simply raise the price of their pizza to offset the supposed high costs of Obamacare?

I pay $8.99 for large one topping pie from my local pizza place. It's a small place run by Pakistanis, they make damn good shiat.

Go ahead and boycott Papa Johns. I'm sure their margins are just as thin as Dominos or the other chains, and depend on the competent few that put in full hours + overtime to make up for the show-up-to-work-if-they-feel-like-it members of the team. And when you have to order for three dozen people, I'm sure everyone will be willing to pay top dollar for your personal favorite Cygnoid Family Bros. pizza.

This guy's sin was having the gall to explain economic cause and effect and he's being crucified because he wants to stay in the black rather than taking a loss until Obama's magical pixie dust cures the nation.

I'm dreading the jobs reports in early 2013 - wait for the Sequestration shoe to drop next. The Democrats own the economy now - the It's Bush's Fault card has officially expired - and the really sad part is the damage can't be limited to be people who voted for it.

Because .14 cents per pizza is such an insurmountable cost. If you fail to scale your business with that small change (hah!) you would have failed years ago. Fluctuating cost is everywhere; I've had vendors who have doubled the charge for what I need, and still stayed in business.

No, sorry, Prussian_Roulette, this is political, and he's doing it to double-down. If his business is so sensitive to such a small alteration, he would have been gone and bust years ago.

Now that I know which places not to support, I'd like to see a list of local pizza joints, neighborhood bars, and family style restaurants that will be willingly supporting Obamacare for the good of their employees, just so I know which deserve my support.

Really so business costs go up, and someone has to do lay offs, gee big surprise there, what's asinine is that there are people who really thought companies wouldn't lay people off. This is just round one, and the administration asked a few companies to hold off until after the election, so just wait till those start coming .